Fact Check: Video of a distressed bride desperately trying to stop her doli is not from India
A video of people carrying a distressed bride in a doli is shared virally with a claim in Arabic that it shows one of the tribes in India, and that it is their tradition that when a groom dies, the bride is buried alive with him.
A video of people carrying a distressed bride in a doli is shared virally with a claim in Arabic that it shows one of the tribes in India, and that it is their tradition that when a groom dies, the bride is buried alive with him.
The bride is visibly exhausted and can be seen crying incessantly while being carried away in the doli. She even holds onto a tree branch to stop the doli from moving further.
The claim in Arabic goes as “مقطع متداول لأحد القبائل في
The video is shared virally on all platforms of social media with this claim.
Fact Check:
The claim is false. The video is from a Nepali wedding and not from India.
When we searched the extracted key frames from the video using Google reverse image search, we got some results of reels published on TikTok. As in India, Tiktok is banned and the videos cannot be played, we searched other social media platforms.
A Twitter user shared the screenshots from the video and stated that the video is taken from a Nepali wedding, where it is a custom to carry the bride in a doli.
The shared screenshots have the keywords “Bajhang Bihe #reels #tiktokers #tiktokmusers #nepalitiktok”, on further search, we found that a user named laxu.sapkota shared this video on TikTok with the same title and tags.
So we searched for his other social media accounts using social searcher. We found his Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and other accounts with the same name.
His LinkedIn profile explains that he is a documentary photographer, documentary filmmaker, digital content creator, and video creator. His Instagram account also shared videos of the bride being carried in a doli and crying during the ritual called bidai, as reels.
Here is the original video shared by him.
Here are more videos of the wedding showing other rituals as reels.
Telugupost contacted Laxu Sapkota for more details about the wedding. We will update the article as we hear from him.
The practice of Sati, of a recently widowed woman immolating herself on her husband’s pyre, either voluntarily or by force was an old custom in India and was banned in 1829. It is no longer in practice in any of the tribes in the country.
Hence, the video of a crying bride carried away in a doli is not from India, it is a ritual from a Nepali wedding and was shot by a Nepali photographer named Laxu Sapkota. The claim is false.